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Misrecognition and labor market inclusion of refugee mothers

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  • Jolanta Maj
  • Aneta Hamza‐Orlinska
  • Inessa Sytnik
  • Artem Stopochkin
  • Mustafa Özbilgin

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185,000 refugees from Ukraine have started working in Poland since the Russian war began. Drawing on Bourdieusian concepts of capitals, misrecognition, habitus, and the field, the paper theorizes the subjective and objective terms of inclusion across intersectional interplay of motherhood, ethnicity, and refugee status. In particular, we explore how intersectional marginalized identities of individuals shape their negotiation power over terms of their labor market inclusion. Using qualitative interview data from 10 Ukrainian working mothers in Poland who became refugees following the Russian war in Ukraine in 2022, we demonstrate that misrecognition leads to uneven relations of power curtailing working refugee mothers' agency to negotiate the terms of their inclusion.

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  • Jolanta Maj & Aneta Hamza‐Orlinska & Inessa Sytnik & Artem Stopochkin & Mustafa Özbilgin, 2025. "Misrecognition and labor market inclusion of refugee mothers," Gender, Work and Organization, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 32(2), pages 653-672, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:gender:v:32:y:2025:i:2:p:653-672
    DOI: 10.1111/gwao.13179
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